New Rebstockpark

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New Rebstockpark with moat ("Rasengracht") and pedestrian bridges. On the left in the background the exhibition tower and in front of it the Torhaus exhibition center . Looking east

The Neue Rebstockpark is a public green space in the city of Frankfurt am Main . The park is part of the Frankfurt-Rebstock district to the west of the city center in the Bockenheim district . It is located to the east of the older and much larger Rebstockpark . The park area of ​​around 7.5  hectares was opened by the City of Frankfurt in 2005. The Neue Rebstockpark differs significantly from the older urban green spaces in Frankfurt due to its strictly geometric landscape architecture , which is exclusively based on straight lines . The internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman was involved in the concept for the park . As part of the Frankfurt green belt , the grounds of the New Rebstock Park are designated as a landscape protection area.

location

The Neue Rebstockpark is located on the Rebstock site in the southwest of the Bockenheim district. It is located to the west of the exhibition grounds of Messe Frankfurt and the Kuhwaldsiedlung between the park and the exhibition grounds . In the west, the park borders, separated by a street, on the property of the municipal swimming pool Rebstockbad and on the southeastern branch of the neighboring Rebstockpark , established in 1962 . Immediately adjacent to the north and with several entrances to the New Rebstockpark is the new Rebstock residential area , with exhibition car parks adjacent to the south. The Europaviertel, which is currently under construction, is located southeast of the green area .

History of the site

Like the entire Rebstock site and several of its facilities, the Neue Rebstockpark is named after the medieval owners of the area, the Frankfurt patrician family Rebstock . The first written mention of a Rebstockhof goes back to the year 1300. In the 14th century the property became the property of the Frankfurt canon Wicker Frosch .

The Rebstock site received more attention from the early 20th century. As part of the International Aviation Exhibition in 1909, the Zeppelins LZ 5 and LZ 6 landed and took off there with general attention. The following year the city of Frankfurt became the tenant of the property. She left the Rebstock site to the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft . This set up Frankfurt's first airport there, the airship port on Rebstock, which began operations with zeppelins in 1912.

In the 1930s, the airfield was expanded to include a runway for hydrofoil aircraft and was used by the Wehrmacht's air force until 1945 . After the Second World War there was a gravel pit on the Rebstock site , from which the Rebstockpark emerged in 1962. A tree-lined exhibition car park for 6,500 cars was created on the current grounds of the New Rebstock Park.

From 2003 until the opening in 2005, this parking lot was converted into a modern park under the management of the Frankfurt Green Space Office and a local project development company. The basis for the landscape architecture design was an award-winning concept by the architect Peter Eisenman, New York , and the landscape architects Robert Hanna and Laurie Olin, Philadelphia ; the design was developed by the BWP Endreß landscape architects . The construction costs for the new Rebstockpark amounted to 3.5 million euros .

Design and equipment

"Rasengracht" with platform ("Bastion") and pedestrian bridges, view to the southwest
"Prairie shrubs" on the northern edge of the trench; in the middle of the south embankment fortified with gabions. View to the southwest

The design of the New Rebstock Park is based on an “ avant-garde urban planning approach”. In the design of the floor plan and topography, this refers to a "fold principle" after the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) and the mathematical catastrophe theory after the French mathematician and philosopher René Thom (1923–2002). The park area is traversed by a grid of straight paths that form parallelograms in their ground plan . These should take up and highlight the pattern given by the architecture of the neighboring housing estate.

The main component of the landscape architecture is a straight, 400 meters long, about 10 meters wide and two to three meters deep trench on the southern edge of the park, which is known as the "central axis". This ditch, which runs in an east-west direction and is continuously overgrown with lawn , is described as the “Trockengracht” (Schuh, p. 30) or as the “Rasengracht” (Thelen, p. 70) (→  Gracht ) . It is bordered on its northern edge by a moderately steep embankment and on the southern edge by gabions piled up in steps . The park's grid of paths is continued on several pedestrian bridges over the moat, which is lined on both sides by further park paths. More than "bulwarks" (→  Bastion ) designated platforms or terraces across the grave slope allow the view of the sole of the greened freely accessible recess.

The planting of the park with individual trees is also laid out like a grid, the distances between them narrowing towards the north, towards the residential area. The trees from the previous parking lot were taken over. The planting of undergrowth (bushes and shrubs) was largely dispensed with, only the southern edge of the green area is shielded from the neighboring exhibition car parks by thick wood . There are isolated groups of easy-care prairie shrubs along the park paths, a pilot project by the City of Frankfurt's Green Space Office , “Shrubs in the public green” (→  Staude ) .

The park is also equipped with a children's playground with artistically designed wooden steles from a Frankfurt sculpture .

Transport links

The northeast entrance to the park on Am Römerhof street

Due to its proximity to the Rebstock residential district and the Rebstockbad swimming pool, as well as its proximity to the exhibition grounds, the Neue Rebstockpark can be easily reached both by motorized private transport and by public transport operated by the Frankfurt transport company VGF . The nearby stops Leonardo-da-Vinci-Allee, Wilhelmine-Reichard-Weg and Zum Rebstockbad on lines 34 and 50 offer connections to the VGF bus network.About 200 meters northwest of the park is the terminus Rebstockbad on line 17 of the Frankfurt tram Main .

The New Rebstockpark with motor vehicles on the junction Ffm.-vine of the Federal Highway 648 to reach / Wiesbaden street. The closest car park for vehicles is on the street Zum Rebstockbad, named after the neighboring swimming pool, directly opposite the park area. Access to the park is barrier-free .

literature

  • Nadja Schuh: Frankfurt. A companion to new landscape architecture . Edition Garten + Landschaft, Callwey Verlag, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7667-1749-8
  • Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt. A guide to more than 70 parks and facilities in the city . B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-938783-19-1
  • City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (Ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011

Web links

Commons : Neuer Rebstockpark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GrünGürtel info point of the Frankfurt Environment Agency on the grounds of the New Rebstock Park
  2. ↑ a b c d City of Frankfurt am Main: The Green Belt Leisure Card
  3. ↑ a b c d Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt, p. 69
  4. ↑ a b Neuer Rebstockpark at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Nadja Schuh: Frankfurt. A companion to new landscape architecture, p. 30 f.
  6. ^ Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt, p. 70
  7. ↑ Article From Parking Lot to Landscape Park at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  8. ↑ Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund / traffiQ: General route plan Frankfurt am Main 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 26.4"  E